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3. Peel Trident
Looking like something out of the Jetson’s cartoon show, the Peel Trident is one of those quasi-futuristic curiosities from the 1960s. Designed and built on the Isle of Man in 1966, the Trident was only four feet, two inches in length, giving it the claim as the world’s smallest car. That, sadly, was the only claim to fame for the Trident, which was completely impractical in every other respect. The Plexiglas roof amplified the rays of the sun and cooked the people inside who dared drive this tiny, weird looking car. It was also difficult to drive and a bitch to park. Not to mention the fact that you could not fit more than one person in the vehicle. And what was with the name—Trident. Is that not the pitchfork held by the King of Atlantis? Just plain bizarre.
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